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A Perth woman posted on social media she hated her grandmother and wanted to change her life status in the months before she tampered with the elderly woman s medication, causing her death, the WA Supreme Court has been told.
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A post mortem confirmed morphine led to the 91-year-old s death
Ms Sturniolo denies the murder charge
Alaine Dawn Sturniolo, 39, is on trial accused of murdering 91-year-old May Dawn Gladstone Baldwin, who died in hospital seven days after she was found lying on her back in her Wembley Downs home, in January 2012.
It is alleged Ms Baldwin s medication had been swapped by Ms Sturniolo with medication that had been prescribed for her uncle before his death from cancer in June 2011.